re: Pictures from days gone by....

I think Kent McCord, back row is still alive?

Ruta Lee is still alive according to the Wiki

Birmingham, 1976

1971

Flying the Rebel Flag at the site of the underground atomic bomb test in Lamar County, Mississippi in 1964.

You know the 2nd kid from the left was an a-hole

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Flying the Rebel Flag at the site of the underground atomic bomb test in Lamar County, Mississippi in 1964.

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I lived in Sumrall, MS for a few years in the mid-1990s - not too far from where that test was conducted. Among the several people I got to know while living in Lamar County there was a noticeably pronounced high incidence of cancer among people who lived near that test area on Hwy 589 between Hwy 98 and Purvis. Many of the people there don't even remember that there was an underground nuclear test detonation that took place there in 1964.

The resultant subterranean hole is still monitored and shows an extremely high temperature from radioactive isotopes that continue to decay some sixty years later.

On this day, July 12, 1960, the first Etch A Sketch rolled off the production line at the Ohio Art Company’s Bryan, Ohio, factory. Virtually unchanged since its debut, the iconic toy features two knobs controlling a stylus that runs through aluminum powder, leaving marks on the screen. In 1998, the Etch A Sketch was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.